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TIL Homosexuals were officially barred from entering the US until 1990

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L7vr TIL In 1904 a woman borrowed $5 million dollars from US Banks because people thought she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate child. She wasn’t.
mw9P TIL that in 1978, scientists discovered a family of six that had been living cut off from all civilization deep in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years. They had no knowledge of cellophane, television, the Moon Landing, or World War II.
GYW91 TIL that in the 1908 London Olympics, the Russian team arrived 12 days late and missed their most favoured event because they were still following the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar.
djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.
W7rEY TIL The KT Tunstall song "Suddenly I See" was inspired by the art of Patti Smith's album Horses